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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MIA72FLD39

1972-01-21 LAKE WALES, Florida, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N4052X

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PEET JAMES L AVID FLYER

Year of manufacture

1994

Engine

BOMBARDIER ROTAX (ALL)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19941101

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A4C1E8

Registrant of record

LAPPOS NICHOLAS D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

AERO-COMDR 100 · N4052X

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EE

Operator type

D

Airport

CHALET SUZANNE

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000005152

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial — instrument

Total hours

430

Age

29

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

BE LOWERED.1800FT RWY AVBL FOR LDG W BARRIER UP.

Investigator remarks

PLT UNAWARE OF NOTAM DID NOT REQUEST RWY BARRIER

Cause factors

  • 64/C/46 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED Cause
  • 64/C/82 C
    PILOT IN COMMAND FAILED TO INITIATE GO-AROUND Cause
  • 64/L/29 L
    PILOT IN COMMAND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0333. Source file NTSB_1972_3_0333.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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